For years I've wanted the FCC to step in and censor the Internet and now it looks like it may actually happen. In a brilliant move, the FCC is planning to auction an unused piece of 25 megahertz wireless spectrum under the restrictions that the winner provide free wireless Internet access and censor obscene content.

If the FCC's plans come to fruition, 90% of Americans will have access to Free Internet service that's free of pornography and obscene material. The only people PAYING for Internet service will be businesses, and people seeking obscene materials. Within a few years being a private citizen paying for Internet service will itself be considered grounds for an investigation.

What family will stretch their budget to pay for an Internet connection, if the only valid reason for paying for it is if you were seeking obscene and illegal materials? Combined with the fresh interest in enforcing obscenity laws, American access to pornographic material would be returned to 1950's access levels, where it was a rare and shameful thing, hard to find and a humiliation if others learned you were viewing it.

The pendulum is swinging and the permissive whores debasing our culture with obscenity are being marginalized again.

I'm guessing obscene material means kiddie porn and such, if this announcement has the slightest bit of truth to it. Seriously, the governments paying for 90% of America's internet? Every provider in America would go bankrupt overnight.

Oh, and the FCC can't step in and censor the internet, what with the "F" in there standing for "federal". The internet is international, meaning that your government has no jurisdiction over the vast majority of content. They can try to block access to sites from computers within your country, but they'll never be able to actually shut down all of the content you find questionable, and people will always find ways of getting around the filters they set up.

Since the onus of censorship is placed on the service provider in this scenario, I have to saw it will not work. The people who run porn sites are much more clever, resourceful, and wealthy than that. They'll get their product through, no matter what silly filters and such are used to try and stop them. :)

The internet is really really great
FOR PORN!
I've got a fast connection so I don't have to wait
FOR PORN!
There's always some new site
FOR PORN!
I browse all day and night
FOR PORN!
It's like I'm surfing at the speed of light
FOR PORN!
The Internet is for porn!
The Internet is for porn!
Why you think the Net was born?
Porn, porn, porn!